Traveling to China as a businessman can present a world of opportunities. The Middle Kingdom, with its bustling cities, burgeoning middle...

In today's fast-paced and ever-changing global economy, businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to manage their supply chains...

The team sat down to discuss freight forwarders. We came up with the following tips for your consideration. To some extent, you can use...

The team recently had a whiteboarding session in which we compared and contrasted Vietnam and China as sources of manufactured goods. We...

Limiting ourselves to five (5) tips, the team whiteboarded out the following advice for making the best of supply chain disruptions....

Traveling to China can be a lucrative opportunity to expand your company's reach and gain access to a vast market as well as tap China as...

For many supply chains, moving from a global network of sourcing, production, and distribution to local ones is no easy task — even as...

Certain tools are integral for dealing with qualitative and quantitative uncertainty and change in SCM (and in almost any other field of...

For several decades now, I have used Ray Carter's 10 C's excellent 10 C's rubric for evaluating suppliers and sourcing product...

International business has its positive and negative aspects. Encountering different cultures and how said affect business etiquette and...

“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is an idiom quite apropos for Supply Chain Management in 2019. Too many firms have been relying...

Doing business in Asia is always daunting; to paraphrase the wise folks at Technomic Asia: In Asia, anything is possible but nothing is...

This blog post corresponds somewhat to the list of Top Ten Do's. Here I go: DON’T # 1 - Don’t discuss sensitive subjects online. Assuming...

The following is a list of "Do's" I have compiled from over 25 years of doing business in Greater China in general and in PR China...